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August 31, 2008 08:17 PM UTC

A "Pox on Both Your Houses" Committee?

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  • by: DavidThi808

As you know, I am not a fan of the Just Cause and Health Insurance Mandate initiatives. These two initiatives are not just job killers, but they will eliminate entire sectors of the economy.

As one of those sectors is the high-tech startup sector, I have a very personal stake in this game. Just Cause has my primary attention in this election because survival comes first and not only is the survival of my company at stake here, but so are all of the job I provide for people at my company.

The question is, what is the best way to defeat this?

The low effort approach is to give money & time to the groups opposing the anti-business measures. They’re putting a major effort in to killing these proposals and that would be an effective approach.

But working with CACI and tII feels yucky. And it’s not addressing the bigger issue.

The true problem is more than just those two initiatives. It’s the entire set of initiatives from both sides (yes Jonathan Coors started it) 47, 49, 53, 55, I92, & I93.

We presently have a relative good business & labor environment here with about as low a level of conflict between the two as you can get. Yes, some businesses find labor a problem. Yes, labor unions find it difficult to make new inroads. But what both don’t seem to realize is – this is the natural state of relations between the two.

We also presently have everyone falling in to one of two camps – each supporting one set and opposing the other set of these initiatives. There is no voice opposing them all.

What do you think of the following?

Creating a group that is opposed to all of these initiatives? There are a couple of significant advantages to such an approach:

  1. The strategic goal is to not just kill all 6 initives, but to insure that we don’t go through this again in 2 more years. A clear no to any change in the present environment will do so.
  2. This would be a clear progressive message that while some of these are anti-union and some are anti-business, they all are anti-worker. This is a message only a group opposed to all 6 can successfully sell.
  3. A group with this approach can talk about concentrating on moving forward cooperatively rather than increasing strife between business & labor – that will sell.
  4. This approach will convince many on the left to vote against the union backed measures. This can only come from a group that is also opposed to 47/49
  5. A group so constituted would give business owners who think 47/49 is a mistake cover to support an effort against the entire mess.

Of course, the downside is I have no idea how to go about doing this, don’t have the money to fund the whole thing, and don’t have the time to manage such an effort.

So the first question is, is such a group even worth the time and effort involved. And then if so, the second question is, how can I get something like this going?

Should such a committee be formed?

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    2. The governor has tried to broker a compromise to no avail – Coors isn’t interested in compromise, just destroying unions. Labor pulled 2 of their measures as an act of good faith, Coors essentially said “up yours.”

      Originally I was of the mind that a compromise should be worked out but at this point I say lets have it out. Lets see where Colorado stands. This is politics and at some point we need to make hard decisions about the future of this state, conflict is inherent in that process.  

          1. gave Right-to-Work to state employees. They are not:

            Forced to join union

            Forced to pay dues

            Forced to pay agency fees

            They have a choice. Shouldn’t all Coloradans have these same rights?

            1. Nobody is forced to join a union, nor were they ever forced to join a union.

              You just want to make it harder for people to join a union if they want to.

              I’ve said it before and I will say it again, you and Johnathan Coors do not care about workers’ rights.  

                1. And yet this is where these initiatives come from that were supposed to “protect” the working man.  

                  To say nothing of using people with criminal records to get their petitions signed.  

      3. If businesses and labor both donation something to the “no on all” approach, it lays the groundwork from lets defeat all these and go back to what we had.

        That would be the ultimate put-down of Coors, if all involved shut this down and continue as before.

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